Tres — #12550 US boys' name
492 babies named Tres in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 12% of names given to boys today.
27% of everyone ever named Tres was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Tres in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tres
The Social Security Administration has registered 492 babies named Tres between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tres currently holds the #12550 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tres performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 131 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Tres shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tres in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tres in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 492 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tres at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tres popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1957
- Peak year (2023)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 68 years of records
Currently ranks #12550 among boys.
492 total births across 68 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 18 births in a single year.
Tres popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1974 (Tres as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tres accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tres by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 131 births that decade — 27% of Tres's all-time total
Tres decade highlights
- Peak decade 131 births
- Runner-up 104 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tres's strongest decade
131 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Tres by state
Where Tres concentrates geographically — total births since 1957
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 6 | 1.2% |
6 of 492 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1957–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.